Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 9801. Duty to rerecord

It shall be the duty of the recorder of deeds in any county, whenever any instrument, now or hereto by law recordable, shall be presented to him, which shall show, by the certificate and seal of the recorder thereon, that such instrument had been previously recorded in the office of the said recorder of deeds, and the record of such instrument in the said office is not available for examination, by reason of the destruction or loss of the book in which it was recorded, or of the destruction in whole or in part of the leaves of the book upon which the instrument was recorded, or by reason of the defacement or obliteration of the record by reason of the fading of ink or other cause, to rerecord such instrument, together with a certificate of the recorder, setting forth the original date of the recording of such instrument and the volume, book, and page of the original record.